Booker T. Washington: “Most certainly do I hope that you are going to carry out into these dark communities the light which you receive here…”

I have never seen one who did not want to be free, or one who would return to slavery.

I have long since ceased to cherish any spirit of bitterness against the Southern white people on account of the enslavement of my race.

I think I never saw a community of people so happy over anything as were the coloured people over the prospect of this new building.

I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.